Chef Joseph Thomas: The most important part of meatloaf is the ingredients. (Photo by Hotel Vin)
Wine has long been the quiet foundation of a great meal. Two new Italian restaurant openings in Fort Worth and a reimagined menu at Hotel Vin’s flagship restaurant in Grapevine share a natural confluence with that most ancient of libations. This is the Fort Worth restaurant news to know right now.
Bacchus Kitchen + Bar Debuts Reimagined Culinary Vision
After taking a direct line from Fort Worth’s T&P Station to downtown Grapevine, we stepped off the train in front of our destination — Hotel Vin — eagerly anticipating the evening’s main event. The hotel’s flagship restaurant, Bacchus Kitchen + Bar, opened in the fall of 2020 with a Mediterranean-leaning menu designed to complement the retreat’s extensive wine offerings. Culinary Director Joseph Thomas informed us that evening that the original concept had not fully realized the restaurant’s potential.
The event’s lavish wine pairing dinner, hosted in The Riedel Room, featured a rich, earthy maitake mushroom toast with cured egg and truffled ricotta, Sauvignon black mussels in a garlic butter broth that has been living rent-free in our minds ever since, and an Angus meatloaf, among several other superlative dishes…